“Whether the issue is denial of food and water to brain-injured people, futility determinations overriding patients’ and families’ decisions, denying potentially beneficial experimental treatment or forcing medical personnel to participate in lethal overdoses, etc., the word “choice” in these cases is a misnomer when only the choice for death is considered “dignified”.”

Excerpted from the blog of Nancy Valko, RN nationally known speaker on so-called Death with Dignity, July 20, 2017. Nancy will be the guest speaker at Michigan Nurses for Life conference, October 7, 2017